Join us for a panel discussion to close out the Give Back Holiday Market with artists, designers, and scholars whose practices are centered around textile as a medium for social activism. The panelists will discuss how each, in their own way, uses fiber art to influence political change and how others can get involved and stay involved in political activism post-election. A Q&A session will follow the discussion.

ART AFTER TRUMP: A RESPONSE AND A GATHERING is a marathon-style (no introductions, no hosts) reading hosted by and featuring artists and arts administrators. The results of the 2016 election were a shocking education for many on the realities of our fellow citizens. We asked our 150 performers: as an artist, how are you reacting to this uncertain future? What do you want to say or do? Each performer was invited to prepare a 2-minute performance of any form and any content.

Housing Works was started out of ACT UP, and we knew then that raising our own money would be essential to our survival and the survival of the communities we served, because the state and federal government was refusing to help. That’s why the bookstore exists, why it is staffed almost entirely by volunteers, and why we rely on the sales of beers, of our donated books, of goods in our Thrift stores, and of event revenue to support programs that have at many, many turns been defunded and denied by the government.

On December 15, we will gather members of the creative and artistic communities to speak for human rights, just as the founders of the AIDS movement did thirty years ago. We hope you will join us.

This Friday, Nov 18, I will be presenting my personal journey and research on indigenous textile traditions across (the archipelago now known as) the Philippines at El Salón at Decolonize This Place. I hope to see you there.

Designed as an action-oriented space, Decolonize This Place will challenge the dynamics of white supremacy and colonial dispossession that continue to underlie the landscape of the art system--and the world at large. #DecolonizeThisPlaceCheck the calendar for WEEKLY UPDATES & EVENTS.

CTRL+ALT is creative convening of artworks, performances and dialogues with artists and scholars who insist that knowing what the future holds is not a question of speculation, but instead agency. Whether their concepts of the future are based on outer space or inner space, a distant era or the next brief moment, the tellers of these stories commonly claim them as their own. Representing a range of backgrounds and identities, they show that even those who have long been pushed to the margins are the center of someone’s universe.